Gas microfilms in droplet dynamics: When do drops bounce?

JE Sprittles - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
In the last ten years, advances in experimental techniques have enabled remarkable
discoveries of how the dynamics of thin gas films can profoundly influence the behavior of …

Droplet collision of hypergolic propellants

C He, ZX He, P Zhang - Droplet, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the present mini‐review, droplet impacting on a liquid pool, jet impingement, and binary
droplet collision of nonreacting liquids are first summarized in terms of basic phenomena …

Universality in the viscous-to-inertial coalescence of liquid droplets

X Xia, C He, P Zhang - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
We present a theory on the coalescence of 2 spherical liquid droplets that are initially
stationary. The evolution of the radius of a liquid neck formed upon coalescence was …

Direct numerical simulation of multiscale flow physics of binary droplet collision

X Chen, V Yang - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Direct numerical simulations are performed to investigate the multiscale flow physics of
binary droplet collision over a wide range of Weber numbers and impact factors. All possible …

Maximum spreading and energy analysis of ellipsoidal impact droplets

X Zhang, B Ji, X Liu, S Ding, X Wu, J Min - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Droplet impacts on solid surfaces are ubiquitous in nature and industry. Before impact, the
droplet shape may be affected by gravity, shear flow, and the electric and magnetic fields …

Droplet impacting a superhydrophobic mesh array: Effect of liquid properties

G Wang, J Gao, KH Luo - Physical Review Fluids, 2020 - APS
Generation of monodisperse droplets by a large droplet impacting a mesh array is a
common technique in microfluidic engineering, materials science, and drug production …

On axisymmetric dynamic spin coating with a single drop of ethanol

Y Pan, Z Wang, X Zhao, W Deng, H Xia - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
We carried out experimental and numerical investigations on the axisymmetric spreading
evolution of dynamic spin coating with a single drop of ethanol. The results show that the …

A volume of fluid method for three dimensional direct numerical simulations of immiscible droplet collisions

J Potyka, K Schulte - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents an advanced Volume of Fluid (VOF) method that enables performant
three dimensional Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of the interaction of two immiscible …

Numerical investigation on the characteristics of single droplet deformation in the airflow at different temperatures

Q Bian, C Zhu, J Wang, N Zhao, H Zhao, C Zhu - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Micro-sized droplets in air may impact aircraft wings and induce severe ice accretion. The
deformation and acceleration of a single droplet in a continuous airflow are simulated using …

Small droplet bouncing on a deep pool

Z Wu, J Hao, J Lu, L Xu, G Hu, JM Floryan - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Droplet bouncing on liquid surfaces frequently occurs for low-Weber-number impacts.
Previous studies typically used large droplets with oscillation initiated by their creation …